If a man is called to be a street sweeper,he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.He should sweep streets so well that all the hostsof heaven and earth will pause to say,here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the menwho walked through the huts comforting others,giving away their last piece of bread...They offer sufficient proof that everythingcan be taken from a man but one thing:to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,to choose one's own way.- Viktor E. Frankl

A man who as a physical beingis always turned toward the outside,thinking that his happiness lies outside him,finally turns inward anddiscovers that the source is within him.- Soren Kierkegaard

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,and that is that I know nothing.- Socrates

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.- Albert Schweitzer

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.- Chinese Proverb

If you talk to a man in a language he understands,that goes to his head.If you talk to him in his language,that goes to his heart.- Nelson Mandela

A great man is always willing to be little.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who has no imagination has no wings.- Muhammad Ali

A man is what he thinks about all day long.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One man with courage makes a majority.- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.What right have we then to depreciate imagination.- Carl Jung

Every man must decide whether he willwalk in the light of creative altruismor in the darkness of destructive selfishness.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any man who reads too muchand uses his own brain too littlefalls into lazy habits of thinking.- Albert Einstein

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.- Henry David Thoreau

If a man loses pace with his companions,perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Let him step to the music which he hears,however measured or far away.- Henry David Thoreau

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.- B. C. Forbes

There is nothing with which every man is so afraidas getting to know how enormously muchhe is capable of doing and becoming.- Soren Kierkegaard

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so livethat his happiness shall dependas little as possible on external things.- Epictetus

This above all: to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.- William Shakespeare

You cannot build character and courage bytaking away a man's initiative and independence.- Abraham Lincoln

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -and that is the basis of all human morality.- John F. Kennedy

If the stars should appearbut one night every thousand yearshow man would marvel and stare.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For man with no forgiveness in heart,life worse punishment than death.- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.The more of it one has the more one wants.- Benjamin Franklin

A wise man hears one word and understands two.- Yiddish Proverb

It is what a man thinks of himselfthat really determines his fate.- Henry David Thoreau

When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,and the lightnings blaze around usit is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.- Luther Martin

A wise man can learn more from a foolish questionthan a fool can learn from a wise answer.- Bruce Lee

A man's good name is his best monument- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

As long as a man stands in his own way,everything seems to be in his way.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man looks back into the past,and does not grieve over what is far off,nor rejoice over what is near;for he knows that time is without end.- Lao Tzu

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,but the triumph over it.The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,but he who conquers that fear.- Nelson Mandela

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.- Lao Tzu

The secret of success in life is for a man to be readyfor his opportunity when it comes.- Benjamin Disraeli

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.- George Bernard Shaw

A man is truly ethical only when he obeysthe compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.- Albert Schweitzer

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,and if a man does not know what a thing is,it is at least an increase in knowledgeif he knows what it is not.- Carl Jung

Each man is the architect of his own fate.- Appius Claudius

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.- John F. Kennedy

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.- Benjamin Franklin

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,and knows not that it brings abundanceto drive away the hunger.- Saint Basil

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.Everything that exists has broughtwith it its own peculiar lesson.- Orison Swett Marden

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.- Epicurus

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,no wind is favorable to him.- Seneca

It is not the man who has too little,but the man who craves more, that is poor.- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Feel Unity with Spirit and All CreationAll things share the same breath thebeast, the tree, the man... the airshares its spirit with all the life it supports.- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]

The ultimate test of a man's consciencemay be his willingness to sacrifice something todayfor future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.- Gaylord Nelson

When I look back on all these worries,I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbedthat he had had a lot of trouble in his life,most of which had never happened.- Winston Churchill

A man can succeed at almost anythingfor which he has unlimited enthusiasm.- Charles M. Schwab

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.- John Morley

If a man empties his purse into his head,no man can take it away from him.An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.- Benjamin Franklin

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected onlyby the man who is as well organizedin his individuality as the mass itself.- Carl Jung